# Explain the Sad Puppies (Science Fiction Controversy) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [December 2, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-sad-puppies-science-fiction-controversy/927019 "2020-12-02T16:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-sad-puppies-science-fiction-controversy/927019/2 "2020-12-02T16:36:04Z")
I think this thread was where I first heard about the Sad Puppies (and Chuck Tingle as well): > [@2016 Hugo Awards: The Sad & Rabid Puppies are back](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-hugo-awards-the-sad-rabid-puppies-are-back/753269/2): > > Yeah, it’s all Rabid Puppies this year. As it was last year, actually. Last year, the Sad Puppies put together a slate of works they thought deserved the award. Their complaint about the Hugos was that they had become a bastion for “political correctness.” Yet when asked to give examples, they could only point to [one story](http://www.apex-magazine.com/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love/) that got a nomination and didn’t win (and couldn’t possibly have won). Any listing of Hugo winners showed there were plenty of stories that they would have loved, but the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-sad-puppies-science-fiction-controversy/927019)._